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The telecommunication ability likewise lessened with range, restricting the variety of information modes
that could be used by the imaging system. After taking the series of images, that included Pale Blue Dot,
NASA mission managers commanded Voyager 1 to power its cameras down, as the spacecraft was not
going to fly near anything else of significance for the rest of its mission, while other instruments that were
still gathering information needed power for the long journey to interstellar space.

The command sequence was then compiled and sent to Voyager 1, with the images taken at 04:48 GMT on
February 14, 1990. The data from the cam was stored at first in an on-board tape recorder. Transmission to
Earth was likewise postponed by the and missions being provided priority use of the Deep Area Network.

3 of the frames received revealed the Earth as a small point of light in void. Each frame had actually been
taken using a various color filter: blue, green and violet, with exposure times of 0. 72, 0. 48 and 0. 72
seconds respectively. The 3 frames were then recombined to produce the image that became Pale Blue Dot.
12 of a pixel, according to NASA). The light bands across the photograph are an artifact, the result of
sunshine showing off parts of the video camera and its sunshade, due to the relative distance in between the
Sun and the Earth. Voyager's viewpoint was approximately 32 above the ecliptic.

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The wide-angle image was inset with 2 narrow-angle images: Pale Blue Dot and a similar photo of Venus.
Find Out More Here -angle photograph was taken with the darkest filter (a methane absorption band) and
the fastest possible direct exposure (5 milliseconds), to prevent saturating the electronic camera's vidicon
tube with spread sunshine. However, the result was a bright burned-out image with numerous reflections
from the optics in the camera and the Sun that appears far bigger than the actual measurement of the solar
disk.
Pale blue color [modify] Earth appears as a blue dot in the picture mainly since of Rayleigh spreading of
sunshine in its atmosphere. In Earth's air, short-wavelength visible light such as blue light is scattered to a
higher degree than longer wavelength light such as traffic signal, which is the reason the sky appears blue
from Earth.